Mageia3,I'm getting very sick of seeing this message... the wifi only works fine at my house, but not at work or anywhere else. At work, I have to plug an Ethernet line into my computer in order to get any work done.

It sucks I cant do something as simple as connect to a basic wireless network (open or encrypted)... I assume at this point, I'm going to have to go through command line, rummage config files, paste output, try 40 more times and maybe have an answer.. Any help?

edit: I have all the latest updates and I really don't wanna have to switch distros.. I like Mageia and I have everything setup the way I like it. But it needs to be functional or it's useless to me. I need this to work or I'm switching back to Fedora.

Last edited by endat on Jul 25th, '13, 20:53, edited 3 times in total.

First of all, thank you for responding and also for helping with my last issue (installing the OS). Not sure which network manager I have, but per your previous advice I did KDE only since the Gnome network manager was preventing the OS installation. I am at work plugged into ethernet at the moment... and here are the command outputs

The only place wifi will connect is my house. I will be there tomorrow and I can post output of that connection if it helps.. but anywhere else, this is all I see.. I will donate money to the Mageia project if we can resolve this

You currently have networkmanager and net_applet running. The two are battling for the interface probably.Choose one, i'd go with net_applet. I'd just remove networkmanager via urpme -a networkmanager if you don't want to use GNOME.

I suppose I can live without Gnome, but I do like to have it.. for when others use my computer.

I ran the command urpme -a networkmanager, and 13 of 13 packages were uninstalled. After the networkmanager was removed, I rebooted and the wifi seems to be working. All seems well now, and I don't have to carry an embarrassing ethernet cord with me anymore. Tell me, will Gnome still operate as normal? Can I get Gnome to use net_applet?

Here are the commands from before again as root (thought i had su'd before).

Well, you can still use networkmanager, Just set net_applet to not start automatically, the re-configure the connection,keep all settings, and at the summary page, enable/check "Allow interface to be controlled by Network Manager"See http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/3/en/content/ ... onnect-endThen you can reinstall networkmanager and task-gnome, which will bring back gnome-control center.

For you other question, yes you can use gnome without networkmanager. net_applet will be in the lower right corner,and will only appear when you move your mouse there. networkmanager will be locate in the top panel.You're currently only missing gnome-control-center, that was uninstalled together with networkmanager.

Well, the output you provided is too much, i've removed some irrelevant stuff which is not needed anymore.Sadly, the remaining information is still not enough. Have you been connected to the network before?Is it WPA/WPA2 or WEP or even unencrypted?

Did you try to reconfigure the connection? Just go through it, provide the key for that network.